The USA’s Rice University is developing haptics for virtual reality, to provide gamers with physical feedback. The Hands Omni glove is a prototype, sponsored by VR company Virtuix. The glove inflates bladders underneath the fingers, to make it feel as though a gamer is actually holding a real object.
Analyst Comment Is this wearable the first step towards the haptic gloves used to interact with the Oasis in Ernest Cline’s novel, Ready Player One? I can hope… (TA)
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